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spectacle-maker
[spectacle n.1 6, 7 c.]
1. One who makes spectacles.
1530Palsgr. 274/1 Spectacle maker, lunettier. 1611Cotgr., Besiclier, a Spectacle-maker. 1674Boyle Excell. Theol. i. iv. 168 Des-Cartes does acknowledge with other writers, that perspective-glasses were..first found out..casually by one Metius, a Dutch spectacle-maker. 1728Chambers Cycl. s.v. Telescope, Fifty Years afterwards, a Telescope..was made..by a Spectacle-maker of Middlebourg. 1839Penny Cycl. XIV. 119/1 [List of City Companies] Spectacle-makers. 1883Encycl. Brit. XVI. 258/1 Not only were spectacle-makers the first to produce glass magnifiers (or simple microscopes), but [etc.].
2. One who makes no score in either innings in a game of cricket.
1893Star 8 July 4/2 The compiler has been cruel enough to set out a full..list of spectacle makers during the whole term of years. |